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The parable of the prodigal. Containing, The riotous prodigal, or The sinners aversion from…
The parable of the prodigal. Containing, The riotous prodigal, or The sinners aversion from God. Returning prodigal, or The penitents conversion to God. Prodigals acceptation, or Favourable entertainment with God. Delivered in divers sermons on Luke 15. from vers. 11. to vers. 24. By that faithful servant of Jesus Christ Obadiah Sedgwick, B.D. Perfected by himself, and perused by those whom he entrusted with the publishing of his works.The parable of the prodigal. Containing, The riotous prodigal, or The sinners aversion from God. Returning prodigal, or The penitents conversion to God. Prodigals acceptation, or Favourable entertainment with God. Delivered in divers sermons on Luke 15. from vers. 11. to vers. 24. By that faithfull servant of Jesus Christ Obadiah Sedgwick, B.D. Perfected by himself, and perused by those whom he intrusted with the publishing of his works.
London: printed by D. Maxwel for Sa. Gellibrand, 1660
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Thirdly, know, That by progress in sin, after punishment, 1the estate is worse, Formally, Judicially, Eventually. 1. Formally worse: For, if sin be it which makes the estate bad, then more sinning must needs be that which makes the estate worse; as on the contrary, the additionals and incrementals of Grace, (i.) when a man doth add one degree of grace to another, and riseth in a better, and a stronger, and fuller acting of grace, hereby the moral perfection of his soul is much more bettered and perfected; so when the habits of sin admit of more love of sin, more exercise of sin, that a man doth go on from one sin to another, by way of addition, or in the frequent practise of the same sins, by way of iteration, he cannot but make his sinful nature much more sinful, more filthy, and more vile; as, when a man doth twine one thread upon another, or one cord upon another, he adds a greater strength unto it; so, when a man shall roll and file one sin upon another, &c. by further progress in sin, the very pollutions are more spread, and more established, and more enlarged, by it a man is always more under the pollution of sin, and more under the dominion of sin, as the Proselytes were made ten times more the children of the Devil.
Thirdly, know, That by progress in sin, after punishment, 1the estate is worse, Formally, Judicially, Eventually. 1. Formally worse: For, if sin be it which makes the estate bad, then more sinning must needs be that which makes the estate worse; as on the contrary, the additionals and incrementals of Grace, (i.) when a man doth add one degree of grace to another, and riseth in a better, and a stronger, and fuller acting of grace, hereby the moral perfection of his soul is much more bettered and perfected; so when the habits of sin admit of more love of sin, more exercise of sin, that a man doth go on from one sin to another, by way of addition, or in the frequent practise of the same sins, by way of iteration, he cannot but make his sinfull nature much more sinfull, more filthy, and more vile; as, when a man doth twine one thread upon another, or one cord upon another, he adds a greater strength unto it; so, when a man shall rowl and file one sin upon another, &c. by further progress in sin, the very pollutions are more spread, and more established, and more enlarged, by it a man is always more under the pollution of sin, and more under the dominion of sin, as the Proselytes were made ten times more the children of the Devil.